Night (Day) at the Museum

If you don't care about history, precious gems, culture, or if you hate learning skip to the fifth paragraph. (If you decide to take this route, shame on you.)

For those of you who are museum nerds like us, you would LOVE London. There are 312 museums in London but we only managed to stumble upon 3 this weekend. Our first stop was the Natural History Museum where we saw a dinosaur (yes, a live one) and thousands of minerals and rocks (Steph was way too excited about these, yeah Geology class!) We learned that a millipede moves faster than a cheetah and sometimes small bugs can single-handedly consume a rat, we're still trying to figure that one out.

We then walked to visit Victoria and Albert. They have a Museum, The V&A. We spent quite a while in the Medieval Times area. We even got to try on some traditional robes from the Middle Ages.

Our favorite stop of the day was The British Museum. We split up and tried to conquer the areas that most interested us in 30 minutes. It didn't work. Steph spent the most of the 30 minutes fixated on the Rosetta Stone and only got to see a few artifacts from Ancient Rome and Greece. Stina only managed to visit the Islamic Empire exhibit. We're definitely hitting up The British Museum again. We've decided to make Friday the official "Museum Day."

Side note: the picture in front of the British Museum includes Becca! (Stina's friend from Princeton that came to visit)

After our fun filled, learning day we ventured to Notting Hill. After asking a local where to eat, we followed her advice and went to "Crazy Homies." This little Mexican joint was absolutely lovely. The food was to die for, the music was pumpin' and the service was brilliant. We can't really explain how great it was, you'll have to make a trip to London to experience it yourselves.

Unlike the cleanliness we encountered at the museums, the club we went to Saturday night was dirty, the place and the people. We are happy we went to experience a renowned London club but that will be our first and last visit. You may be wondering why we were so enthusiastic about writing about museums and not clubs... we're not your typical college girls. We did have a lot of fun immitating the less coherent people and dancing in/with our coats (we refused to pay two pounds to check them).

Like the club, our own kitchen is (in the most appropriate terms), NAST (we didn't leave out the "y", that's what we say). We've enjoyed grocery shopping and trying to cook on our own, but the facilities are making that real difficult. The picture speaks for itself. (No, Mory and Shannon, none of this is our mess).

Bottom line, families and friends, we need money to eat out. We take any form of international currency. Dollars, pounds, euros, any donation is accepted.

We're definitely livin' the life. We love it here. COME VISIT! (studentuniverse.com has great deals) Sorry seasoned folks, it's a student only website.

Cheers!